> this capability gives me control over the outcome
But this is precisely what what it does and we've been doing for 11'000 years.
We've been waiting for a random bytes to change in firefox.exe to maybe see if it runs faster or eats less memory.
Then for 100 years we rammed firefox.exe with a fuzzer replacing not only but hundreds of bytes, and it worked very well.
Now patch a single byte, and people are suddenly marching...